Slammingjack

I know in my own microwave. The difference from being perfect and over cooked is 15 seconds. CCM is good stuff, but you must be careful about temperature.

Yeah that's it. Preheat to 170f put the jigs in and leave them in until your done @ 350f. Always wait until it's to temperature before you set the timer. Takes longer but they come out real tough and shiny.

I use Pro-tec. The first time I used it looked great. Then I took it fishing, first time I ran it over an oyster bed it chipped the paint right off the bottom of the jig. Ticked me off I'm here to tell you. So I looked that up here on TU. I found a post I think it was by Toad frog about baking at low temp. and then stepping it up to the temp. on the jar. So I tried it. He was 100% right about it making the paint so much tougher. I preheat the oven to 170F, when It gets there I place the jigs and bake for 10 min. Then leaving the jigs in the oven I rise it to 240F. When it gets there I set the timer for 10 min. Then I go to 350F once it's there I set the timer for 20 min. When I fish with these jigs and run over an oyster bed, It may scratch it but it won't chip it at all. Some jig lasts way longer. (Thx Toad frog) Hope this helps.

Green pumpkin / black is a good color. Flake silver is a good one

Also on colors make sure it's nonbleed. Junebug is one of those colors that can bleed.

Man that looks good.

Living in Florida myself I can tell you this. I have tried four different Plastisol. Two had none or very few bubbles. (LC and M-F) The other two had a lot. To the point that I would never buy them again. Good thing about living in Florida is the winters are very dry and not very cold. Great for pouring. The summer with high heat and 98% humidly plus all the bugs. Well, It is easy to have trouble with stuff. I don't buy in drums, So I can't tell you about what happens inside of one. I can tell you one of the Plastisol that was bad with bubbles. Would pop when heated. Condensation in it? Maybe, maybe not.

Thank you everyone going to give one or two these a try.

Anybody have a good recipe for a white belly for a swim bait?

Thank you for the infor. and your time. I have hear of jigging in deep water. But a swim bait is new to me.

Nice fish! I see how it got it's name. If I may ask now deep was the water? How did you rig it? Now you have a reason to buy more stuff lol

I have LC crab, shrimp, clam and Herring. Only one I like is the Herring. Got their worm oil, not so sure about it. Had a bag stick together so bad it was almost impossible to get open. I put the herring oil in the bag the night before I go fishing. Don't know if it helps catch fish. Other then hid the human smell on the bait.

Your welcome. One more thing adding water makes the silicone smell a lot stronger. Need to wear a vapor mask or respirator.

I have done the silicone mold. Not the 2 part mold, just the open pour. A few things about it: One: use 100% silicone. I get mine from Ace Hardware. Around 5-6 bucks a tube.Two: What you add to it is water. Not very much. I use 1/4 tsp to a full tube. It will only takes so much water, the rest will not mix in. (pour that left over water out before you mold). Make sure all the silicone your going to use has water in it. ( or you end up with a mess) The water makes it setup in like an hour( I give it two just to be sure) Three: your model must be hard( I use baked clay) Your model must also be sealed( I use mod podge. I got it before I learned there was better stuff).Four: Mix it in a plastic bowl. I get mine from the dollar store. ( well for a dollar) Once the silicone sets up it will peel right out. So you can use it again. I have used white and clear. White makes a better looking mold. But clear it easier to tell if all has water in it ,because it turns opaque. You have to make a frame out of something. Need four sides and a top and bottom. I use wood because that's what I had. Don't glue it together, just use clamps. ( you have to pull the wood apart. Easier if not glued) Fill the frame all the way to it's even with the top. Push you model down from the top until it's just above the edge. Then use the top to push it down the rest of the way. Make sure the top is setting on the edge of the sides. This will push the excess out of mold and leave you a nice flat top on the mold. This will give you a very shiny bait. The detail is very good. Will even pick up the paint brush marks in the Mod podge. If your model has very thin or small parts, this may not be the way to go. Easy to break off in the mold. If you end up with bad places in the mold(voids), just mix some more silicone and water.Fill it in ( I use a q-tip dipped in water)and put the model back in. let it set up again. This is why I have not tried two part molds. Because the silicone will bond to the point where you can't tell where it was repaired. One last note if you do a swim bait with a paddle tail and the tail is 90 degrees all fine and good. If it's 45 degrees you must put the tail in at a angle. Then push down.

Thank you guys for your help. First time I've used it and I was what? where did the color go. Now I know thx again.

Has anybody used LC Minnow Silver? Stuff looks like a Med. gray in the bottle With very, very small silver glitter. I put like 5 drops in a 1/2 cup plastic as I dropped it in it looked gray. I mixed up, Heated and poured. It came out clear!? Glitter but no gray at all. Is this the way this stuff is? Do I need to add more drops? This is a colorant ain't it?

It's kind of like this. You and your fishing bubby are out on your boat. It's like 90 something out there so you drink a 6 pack of Miller lite to keep cool. You feel a light tap on your line and get a nice fish. Your fishing bubby drinks a 6 pack of Ice House. He feels a light tap on his line and goes what was that? You had a great day. Your fishing bubby cares a lot less about it all.

1. LC- yep that's about right. I can add it had very few bubbles. I got the green saltwater and it was too hard. Very little action on the bait. So I tried the 60/40 and that was better. But the new bait smell lasted longer then any another I tried. 2. SI- pourasol the plus to it is the best price... That's about it. Bubbles, lot of bubbles. More smoke then the rest and if I can quote my wife, who was standing talking to me when I pulled a cup out of the mico. As she ran back into the house was " that stuff stinks" Yep that's about right. It was their hard and I didn't try any of their other stuff. 3. Calhouns- Never tried it 4. MF- I hope your right about this one. I just order some for the first time a few days ago. Got the 464 which is on sell $40 buck a gallon. 5. CCM- Man when I first got this I love it. What's not to like. This was their hard. Great action for a hard.(maybe the best so far) Very little smoke, very little odor, almost no bubbles at all. Bait come out dry. Heats faster then the others. New bait smell goes away in like a day. But.. it sure is picky about heat. No I don't have a heat gun , never needed it before. Had light colors turn yellow on me like 3x maybe more (hard to tell on dark colors). As you get closer to the end of the bag things get worst. More smell, more smoke. If you shake the bag too much you get bubbles like a head on a beer. It's like you can't mix it well because it's in a bag. If it was in a jug or bucket I would order it again.

A few months back I was trying to make a dark green bait. Well, I didn't have a real colorant for that color, so I mixed colors together and it had way too much blue in it. It was so dark it looked black. So I added white to lighten it up. Which helped but it wasn't what I wanted. So I'm setting wondering what to do with this mess of a color. I see a jar of lumina copper(LC) that said add to cold plastic. The plastic was hot.. So I'm like wonder what happens. So I added it. Well it don't mix in when hot. Kind of makes a copper swirl in the bait. Ended up with a very dark green bait with a copper swirl. Poured some 3 1/2" swim baits and put it in a bag. Long story short. My Grandson likes dark baits, so he goes out an lands a 4# LM Bass with that bait lol. So now I'm in the shop trying to make that mistake again. lol Guess I should have wrote it down.

Same thing happen to me. Diff. color but it also a LC colorant. I get mine from Spike-it now. call and talk to Bruce. Tell him the colors you want and non -bleed. He will hook you up.

I don't want to come off like the busted hinge. First I like their colorants. They even have a Y. chart. that doesn't bleed. I tried their pourasol hard and well, the micro bubbles were just too much. Very good price. I cook in a microwave, maybe that had something to with it. So I moved on to someone else.

Some plastics seem to hold that smell longer LC is one that smell hangs around a week or more. CCM does not hold that smell very long and not as strong.

I got the same mold. Had the same trouble as you. If you are hand pouring from a cup. I think it's a poor design for that. Only one vent hole and it's on the bottom. sprue hole is on the small side. Tilt the tube to a little over 45 degrees. Use hotter plastic. pour a very small stream. Make sure you have a good glove. when full set it in something so it standing up. After 7 or 8 tries I when and added two vent holes. One a little above the middle and one just below sprue hole. Make sure there both on the same side of the mold and facing up. They will take the mold back and replace it with what ever you want. If you want to send it back forget the holes lol. Anyway I got mine to work this way. LC said they have sold hundreds of these .The vent holes I added are very small and the flashing can be remove with out messing the bait up. Hope this help. Not a very good mold for newbies like me to try. BTW if a worm breaks off inside the mold don't try digging it out. Just stick in the microwave for 30 seconds and shake it with the sprue turned down and then you can get it out. Hope this helps.

Maybe my bad lol thx Bob

That would be hard to say. Not everybody calls them by the same name. Things like I have 7 molds that have paddle tails. None of them look the same. So would they each have their own name or just call them all paddle tails. I have seem people call a tail curly tail and others call it a U tail. So good luck with this lol